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CHANCELLOR FERRIS' 



ADDRESS. 



ADDRESS 



DELI VEERED AT THE OPENING 



OF THE 



LAW DEPARTMENT 



OF THE 



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ON THE 25th OCTOBER, 1858. 



BY 



ISAAC FERRIS, D.D., LL.I)., 

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY. 



PUBLISHED BY 
THE COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY 



1858. 



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Gardner Spring, D.D., 
Hon. Myndert Van Schaick, 

Mancius S. Hutton, D.D., 
James Brown, Esq., 
Robert L. Kennedy, Esq., 
Francis Hall, Esq., 
Hon. a. W. Bradford, LL.D., 

Thomas De Witt, D.D., 
George Griswold, Jr., Esq., 
Henry Yan Schaick, Esq., 
Hon. Wm. B. Maclay, 
John T. Johnston, Esq., 
James Suydam, Esq., 
Isaac Ferris, D.D.,.LL.D., 
Thomas C. Chardavoyne, Esq., 



Wm. Curtis jSToyes, LL.D., 
John J. Cisco, Esq., 
Waldron B. Post, Esq., 
Wm. W. Chester, Esq., 
George Potts, D.D., 
Thos. Suffern, Esq., 
John C. Green, Esq., 
George W. Bethune, D.D., 



Leonard W. Kip, Esq., 
^Tm. W. PmiLips, D.D., 
Thos. H. Skinner, D.D., 
Adam jS'orrie, Esq., 
Charles Butler, Esq., 
Paul Spofford, Esq., 
Wm. M. Yermilye, Esq., 
0. BusH'JfE*LL, Esq. 



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JOHN C. GREEN, 
JOHN T. JOHNSTON, . 
HENRY YAN SCHAICK, 
WM. M. YERMILYE, . . 
ISAAC FERRIS, D.D., - 



President. 

Yice-President. 

Secretary. 

Treasurer. 

Chancellor. 



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Hls Honor the Mayor. 
Wm. Tucker, . 
James Davis, 

S. A. BUNCE, . 

Jas. M. Cross, 



Alderman, 

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Councilman. 



At a meeting of the Council of the University of the City of New York, held 
at the Council Chamber, November 11. 1858. the following resolution wa* 
unanimously adopted: 

" Resolved, That the Address delivered by the Chancellor, at the opening 
exercises of the Law Faculty, be printed for distribution, and that the subject 
be referred with power to Committee consisting of the President. Messre. 
Johnston and Vermilye." 

Extract from the minutes. 

H. VAN SCHAICK, 

Seeretary, 



The following Address was, by arrangement with the Law Faculty, pur- 
posely restricted to general University topics, leaving to His Honor, Judge 
Gierke, the Senior Law Professor, the whole field of remark on the importance 
of a proper mode of law education; a subject which he fully discussed in his 
calm, judicious and able manner. 

The publication of the Address was deemed desirable by the Council, in 
order to meet the inquiry, " "What has been accomplished ?" made by those 
who had contributed to the establishment of the University, as well as to show 
to our fellow citizens the precise ground the institution occupies, and its 
advantages for education. 



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Gentlemen of the Council of the University: 
Gentlemen of the Respective Faculties: 
Gentlemen of the Alumni: 
Respected Patrons and Friends: 

I congratulate you 
on this auspicious occasion. Every stage in the 
onward course of an important object involving the 
interests of society mentally, morally, or physically, 
furnishes ground for congratulation, and especially is 
it so with the attainment of that high point where 
cherished plans are realized, and the results show 
that labor and liberality have been well employed. 
This is our favored position to-night. 

It is now some twenty-nine years since the first 
serious consultations concerning the establishment 
of a New York University, and at that time plans 
and various details were submitted to a chosen 
few, in the study of a venerated minister of this city, 
who has gone to his rest, by the Rev. Dr. Alexander 
Gunn. 

The sudden decease of this excellent and able 



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man laid aside for the time all action on the whole 
subject. Frequent conversations, however, in the 
circle of those who had been before convened, led to 
renewed conferences and with an enlarged circle, in- 
cluding some of the most intelligent and distinguished 
gentlemen in the various professions, and in mercan- 
tile life, in this community. There seemed to be a 
remarkable coincidence of views on the importance 
of a University movement. It was in December, 
1829, that the first record of their consultations was 
begun, and it indicates that devotion to the great 
work, that patience and punctuality in frequent 
meetings, those enlarged, liberal and practical aims 
w^hich one always expects in such men, and which 
call out our admiration. Alas ! the larger propor- 
tion of those eminent men has passed away — yet a 
goodly number remain in the mellowness of age to 
rejoice in this day. 

They early threw out before the country the great 
outlines of their plan. 

The eclectic feature had a marked prominence in 
their minds; while the more usual course as regards 
science and letters — i. e., requiring a full course of 
classical studies as well as the mathematical and Belles 
Lettres for the Baccalaureate of Arts — was provided 
for, they saw the necessity of giving a distinct place 
to the preferences of those who might not desire the 
classical curriculum, or did not deem it necessary, 
and this was one of the special features of their plan. 
But they looked beyond the academic, and embraced 
in liheir range of aims to be accomplished, the pro- 



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fessional as well — ^what a noble and comprehensive 
plan theirs ! It embraced : 

1. A Faculty of Lettres. 

2. A Faculty of Science and Arts. 

3. A Faculty of Medicine. 

4. A Faculty of Law. 

Being composed of representatives of different 
religious denominations, or in other words contem- 
plating a union institution, they could not add the 
Theological Faculty. 

The enterprise on which they entered was one of 
comprehensiveness and magnitude. 

To build a great institution is a work of labor and 
of time. Years must necessarily be occupied, and 
happy they who, after the exercise of great patience 
and liberality, see their undertaking rising on a firm 
basis, and standing in good working condition. In 
the history of nearly all our best institutions it is 
found that their early stages were attended with dif- 
ficulties and discouragements, which, only after years 
of anxiety, at length yielded to faith and persever- 
ance. 

Much has been said in recent years about ''full- 
orbed universities,'' and about a great Central Ameri- 
can University, or a Metropolitan University. The 
theories are beautiful, well defined, and of amplest 
range; we subscribe to them heartily, and believe 
in due time they may to a large degree be realized. 
But were vast funds donated, and professorships 
created, something more is needed for effective and 



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successful operation. "We cannot force the public 
mind. Men will not come to your halls merely be- 
cause professorships have been instituted. 

The principle is as sound in education as in econ- 
omics, that the demand must precede the supply. 
There are, it is true, some modifications to be made 
in special cases, but this is the rule. The want leads 
to the requisite provisions, and only when a people are 
prepared for it — i. e., have a sense of the want — can 
success in any movement in that direction be ex- 
pected. The early stages of a people are controlled 
by the practical. The higher state of sufficiency, 
when plans of personal aggrandisement have been 
extensively realized, and masses are relieved from 
the pressure of the merely practical, will bring the 
period of the 83sthetic and all that relates to orna- 
mentation and artistic gratification — in a word of 
that which, though it belong to science and art, may 
not be convertible to practical ends; and then will 
come the expansion into the higher regions of thought 
and investigation, when the cultivation of distinct 
departments will find ready devotees, and a gen- 
eral interest in the same may be awakened among 
the mass of society. 

On these principles it is, that only in old countries, 
which have grown rich, or where numbers are found 
not controlled by the ruling aim of pecuniary accu- 
mulation, that the verification of the theories of full- 
orbed universities occurs. In our own country the 
day will no doubt come, when they will be found 
here, attracting large numbers, perhaps thousands, 



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to their Iialls. Until tliat period tlie practical will 
predominate, and what is not apparently convertible 
to the purposes of life, will not command success. 
The American University must in this view be built 
up gradually. The leadings of a felt-want on the 
part of the public must be followed, and provision 
be made to meet it. And in due season they who 
come after us, will see in beautiful expansion and 
in as beautiful harmony all the departments of a 
complete educational system. In the meantime let 
theories prevail, and men rush on to vast projec- 
tions, v\diich by half a century precede actual wants, 
and the result will be what it has often been, the ex- 
penditure of much money and a harvest of chagrin. 

Some of the originators of this university, I have no 
doubt, had views concerning its immediate and great 
expansion, which the historj'- of no similar undertak- 
ing warranted, and in some cases, perhaps, thought 
that they might, by a leap as it were, reach magnifi- 
cent results. But could they be present on this occa- 
sion, I cannot but believe they would rejoice in the 
fair and abundant results of all the patience, and all 
the perseverance, and all the liberality exercised. 

It will be my aim, my respected auditors, to hold 
up to your view the actual system now successfully 
prosecuted under our charter, to show you the j)rac- 
tical character of each advance in our expansion, and 
how the public wants in our range of duty are met. 

This will lead me into some detail, but I am per- 
suaded you will bear with me, as it is fitting to this 



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occasion, and as we may well desire to give our friends 
the resume of our first quarter century. 
Our system has three distinct stages: 

2. ^\)t (Hollegtate. 

3. Slje IProfesstonal. 

1. Clje Iprepratflrg. 

This is, it is true, not a part of a university course 
technically viewed, yet it must be acknowledged as 
bearing the same relation to it as the portico to the 
building, or it may be said more strongly, as the 
foundation to the edifice. 

In this the young mind is led through the elements 
of various knowledge usually acquired in the gram- 
mar school, and here as the youth advances he may 
be fitted for higher scholastic training, or for the 
counting room or commercial life immediately. So 
important do we deem this to be, that its careful 
oversight and stated visitation are parts of the duties 
of the Faculty of Science and Letters. 



2. ^\t €alUpdt. 

In our Collegiate course, which constitutes our 
second stage, we cover precisely the same ground as 
other colleges, aiming to give the highest possible 



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tone to the instruction imparted, and to inspire youth 
with love for hterature and learning. 

But we stand here on the eclectic ground^ of our 
founders. While we might individually prefer that 
young men should take the full course, and would so 
advise them, yet they or their parents have ever 
selected the parts of the course to be pursued. A 
decided proportion of our students has always 
been of this description, taking the Scientific and 
Belles Lettres studies, or one or the other, having in 
view what may be most available in subsequent pur- 
suits. 

And what have been the results ? In the course 
of our jirst twenty-six years there have graduated as 
Bachelors of Arts 536 young men, while some 400 
others have to a larger or smaller extent enjoyed 
the benefits of our instructions. This will compare 
favorably with other institutions of a similar charac- 
ter. By an examination of various catalogues we 
find that in the first sixty-six years of Harvard the 
graduates amounted to 531, in the first forty-five 
years of Yale to 524, in the first fifty-one years of 
Columbia to 541, in the first thirty-two years of 
Princeton to 506, in the first thirty years of Bowdoin 
to 541, in the first thirty years of Dartmouth to 644. 
Our venerable and venerated compeer in this metro- 
politan field, Columbia College, was seventy-five 
years old when this institution was opened, and in the 
twenty-six years in which we have labored side by 
side we have graduated about the same number. 

N^ow, to those results of a literary character it may 



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be added, that while our graduates in Science and 
Letters are found in various mercantile and jDro- 
fessione^l positions, accomplishing all which their 
young alma mater, now in her twenty-sixth year, 
could have anticipated, and are filling also professor- 
ships in several institutions of learning, about one 
in three and a small fraction have devoted themselves 
to the ministry of reconciliation, and are doing a 
faithful service in the pulpit at home, and on the 
vast missionary field abroad. These are results which 
we commit to the consideration of the friends who 
have aided our cause in time of difficulty and doubt, 
as showing that their kindness has borne its proper 
fruit. 

I ask you to pass with me now^ to a notice of our 

3. professional §epartttun!s* 

These constitute our third stage. We are all aware 
how the great solicitude of parents is directed to the 
future of their sons rapidly passing to maturity, and 
that the practical tendencies of our tountrj' converge 
on that point. Thus from 17 years of age, (if not 
earlier,) what I call technicaUij, the professional want 
predominates, and even abbreviates in many cases 
the general literary course. - 

This has been met. We have first our 

Scl)ool of 2lrt, 
sustained by one far from being unknown in the 



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department to which he has devoted his talenfe 
^nd taste, and who gathers around him every winter 
groups of those whose tastes and proposed pursuits 
for life lead them to the cultivation of the assthetic 
^rt— Thomas S. Cummings, of the Rational Academy, 
In the amazing advance of internal improvements 
in our country, there has grown up a demand for 
men especially educated to take charge of, and carry 
through, the enterprises which the purposes of busi- 
3:iess call into being. The profession of the Civil 
Engineer has accordingly a distinct, honorable, and 
tnost important place, and takes rank with others. 
To meet this want, we have, secondly, our 

S c Ij 1 of ® n g i n e £ r X n g , 

in charge of one who to his mathematical attain- 
ments adds familiar acquaintance with the whole 
field over which he conducts his classes, and whose 
young men are abroad in the world ably sustaining 
'the honor of the department— Richard H. Bull, A.M, 
It is now sixteen years since the third — the 



Stljool of JHebutne, 

was opened. What it is, is well known over our 
whole land, as its graduates are found in all parts 
-of our country, and who occupy its professorships, 
and dispense instruction, my fellow citizens know 
particularly — they need no endorsement of mine. 
The graduates last year were 127, and since the 
opening of the school have amounted to 1847. 



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Allied to this very closely, is the deraand for educa- 
tion for the preparation of the medicaments so large- 
ly used in our country. Hence 4th, we have our 

Scfjoot of |)ratttcal ^Ijtmistx}), 

a most important and ever indispensable complete- 
ment to the physician. Such a school not only places 
the druggist on high and independent ground; it 
embraces in its range of studies the principles of 
chemical research, as applied more particularly to 
agriculture and the manufacturing arts; in a word 
to an extent it performs the work of a school of 
mines. 

Now in these departments unitedly, during the 
last year, there were enrolled 573. 

Thus by the processes now pursued in this Universi- 
ty, we may say to this practical age, give us your sons 
at ten years of age, and with due diligence on their 
part and co-operation on the part of parents, we will, 
under a favoring Providence, return them to you, on 
reaching their majority, well trained in science and 
letters, professionally qualified as artists, engineers, 
physicians, chemists, and from this time we shall be 
able to add, as lawyers: nor will our work stop here; 
governed by the same practical principle, we shall still 
follow the law of demand, whatever it may be, and 
adapt ourselves to it. Indeed, the indications are 
that we shall be called early to other expansions. 
By the organizations already in operation, there are 
forty men now engaged on this course of instruction. 

On this summary review allow me to make two 



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or three remarks: 1 . This work has been accomphsh- 
ed without municipal aid. There have been no city 
grants to sustain us, no appropriations annually even 
in our greatest straits, though we have been doing a 
large gratuitous work, and beautified the city by 
one of its most noble edifices. Nor have we been 
favored with any special state grants beyond the 
marble, for our front. The Legislative appropria- 
tions which were received during several years were 
not in the way of endowment, but to aid principall}^ 
in current expenses. Our w^ork has been one of 
stern effort and of great self-denial. 

2. All this success has been won in the face of a 
fearful weight of pectmiary pressure. It is well said, 
that it is no credit to one's discernment, after a 
v/ork is done, to "see how it might have been improv- 
ed. So it may be said to myself, when I remark, 
with all deference to the first laborers, that it was 
impolitic to undertake to erect a great institution, 
with a provision of means only sufficient to put on 
its first tier of beams. 

The necessary consequence of entering on this 
work with only a subscription of $100,000 was the 
creation of a debt, and that constantly on the increase. 
In the midst of the work, or rather when quite in- 
complete, came the business prostration of 1837, 
which will be long quoted for its severity, and which 
brought from the window of not a few palatial resi- 
dences the red flag of the auctioneer. It was a time 
that filled most minds with consternation; alas! what 
it must have been in cases of the heavy pressure of 



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indebtedness, whether churches or institutions of 
learning. In our case it was fearful. 

Immediately preceding the entrance of my prede- 
cessor, Mr. Frelinghuysen, on his duties as Chancel- 
lor, in 1839, (I am unable to speak of the amount 
previously expended,) there was a permanent debt 
of $90,000, and a floating debt of $70,000. The 
latter w^as paid by friends preparatory to his coming. 
The next report of the Finance Committee gives an 
indebtedness of $100,000, and annual expenses ex- 
ceeding income by $2,400. In 1845 it was reduced 
to $73,900, and was (with list of some $25,000 
conditional subscriptions) about the sum of debt 
when the 2d Chancellor removed to his present sta- 
tion. The final payment of the entire indebtedness 
was made in June, 1854. 

It is not a question for discussion now whether 
anything was wrong here, and what, if anything. 
The creation of the first indebtedness will explain all 
that followed, to those who know ho)v rapidly such 
a burden increases when societies begin with debt, 
and are committed to a specific policy. All we have 
to do with this matter now is, to note how like a 
mountain weight it tended to press down the Uni- 
versity for over twenty years. It would seem to be 
sufficient to crush out its life. But notwithstanding 
such a weight on. her bosom, the University lived and 
went on with her work, and was sending out her 
noble bands of young men to the arena of life. 

The catalogue of oppressive circumstances is not 
complete until we note the unhappy divisions which 



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arose among her corps of laborers. Several times 
were there serious conflicts previous to 1839, the 
merits of which this is not the time or place, nor 
would I desire to speak. They are only referred to 
historically, to remark how necessarily painful and 
disastrous in their influence on the public mind they 
must have been. It cannot tend to build up an in- 
stitution, to have her instructors and officers array- 
ed against each other in the public print, (a house 
divided against itself,) and had there not been an 
essential vitality in the University, the result would 
have been fatal. 

The question may be asked, How was all the in- 
debtedness removed? It is a fair question, and I am 
Iiapp}^ to answer it. It has been liquidated mainly 
by the large liberality of mercantile men in this com- 
munity, or of those whose wealth was origin allv ac- 
cumulated in commercial pursuits. I am proud to 
say, that in this institution, this superb edifice, you 
look on a memorial of the noble liberality of large- 
hearted merchants. We are their institution em- 
phatically. 

It is proper to say, that since 1854 we have had 
no indebtedness beyond current bills, which the cur- 
rent income meets. Under the stern, necessary rule 
adopted by the Council in 1850, that no debt should 
be incurred beyond the yearly receipts, our way has 
been relieved altogether of the preceding anxiety. 
It is true, that unless the institution be flourishing, 
or has adequate endowment, independent of patron- 
age, the effect of this economic course comes heavily 



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on the corps of teachers, reducmg then- compensa- 
tion, if there be a deficiency or loss — a result of pain- 
ful character, and to be regretted. Of the wisdom 
of this position of the Council there will be but one 
opinion among practical men, and it will evince clear- 
ly what ground for confidence the community may 
justly have in the men who have carried this insti- 
tution through such crises; indeed, it invites their 
benefactions in order to secure more enlarged use- 
fulness. 

A third remark I submit is this — in the progress 
of our course this institution has contributed, through 
its professors, to the great interests of science and 
society, by various issues from the press, and marked 
honor has been accorded to their contributions. 

These productions are known over our whole land 
— they are in our best institutions — they are every- 
where quoted with the highest respect, and as au- 
thority. Several of them take place with the pro- 
ductions of the most distinguished men in Europe. 

Some of the successful efforts of our professors 
have ministered, and are ministering largely to hu- 
man comfort, and the higher civil and commercial 
interests of men, and have secured pre-eminent 
honor to the University. 

How amazing, how world-wide, how deUghtful the 
art of painting the human face by the power of light, 
whether it be called the Daguerreotype, the Photo- 
graph, the Ambrotype, or the Kalotype. It was 
but a few yards from the spot which we now occupy 
that the first successful experiment was made, and 

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the art thrown out at once to the world, that all 
might enjoy the benefit of a discovery so happy — 
by our Draper. 

And there are some here to-night who witnessed 
the first public exhibition of the electric telegraph, 
in a lower story in this building, which Prof. Morse, 
of this University, had conceived, and had been for 
several years here perfecting. Let us judge of the 
importance of these discoveries, by conceiving what 
would be the condition of society if we could now, 
in an instant, be deprived of Draper's Daguerreotype 
and Morse's Telegraph. 

Our woik, I repeat, is by no means done; as fast 
as the public want shall indicate the demand, expan- 
sion in other directions will occur, and other schools 
or departments will be organized. 

One is to be inaugurated to-night — our 

CatD Srljool 

or fifth Professional Department. This was con- 
templated in the first consultations concerning 
the University. The conviction was deep and unani- 
mous that rare advantages are afforded by our city 
for both medical and law schools; and these advan- 
tages have decidedly increased since that day, and 
point most clearly to New York as the place where 
the intended medical practitioner or the lawyer can 
be, above any other part of our country, qualified 
for his responsible position. 

An early movement was made towards establish- 



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ing a Law School by the appointment of some of the 
most eminent men at the Bar, but it was soon seen 
that the want was not so felt as to encourage the- 
continuance of their efforts. Since that time the 
demand for a well- arranged system of legal instruc- 
tion has been widely felt and earnestly expressed. 
We have been pressed from various quarters for 
several years to the action which has taken place,, 
and every effort has been made to secure the right 
men to meet the public desire. Public announce- 
ment has been made of the honorable gentlemen 
constituting the Law Faculty, and unanimous appro- 
bation has been conveyed to us by personal commu- 
nicatiens and by the press. Their work from this- 
day they begin. The accommodations provided for 
the exercises of the school are ample and commodi- 
ous, and I invite you to inspect thena. The field of 
instruction by Lectures will be comprehensive of all 
which the wants of the profession require, and to 
this will be added such practical exercises as will 
bring into application what is communicated by the 
lectures. It will be to us a matter of peculiar grati- 
fication, if, by this complement to the Faculties con- 
templated by the foimders of the University, we may 
confer extensive and lasting benefits on the com- 
munity in which we live, and on our common country. 
By this evening's action we shall stand as a com- 
pleted whole. 

We naturally look- with pleasing anticipations to* 
final success in accomplishing all in the detail as well 
as in the general, which a Wainright,. a Cone, a Milner^ 



a Broadhead, a Crar}% a Thompson, a Gallatin, a 
Delafield, a Lewis, a Johnston, and others of our 
early, but now departed active co-operators proposed. 
Our progress will be slower than it would be if we 
were favored with large endowments ; yet, what 
will be secured as the reward of persevering effort 
will be the more valuable trophy. 

In our faithful onward coiu^se we know we shall 
have the best wishes of this community. May we 
enjoy the smiles of a benignant Providence. 



'§xdmm iini Instnictars hi; % iuibemts 0f % Citjr 0f 

Pto fork. 

ISAAC FERRIS, D.i)., LL.D., CHANCELLOR. 

I. frepratori geprtment. 

PRINCIPALS. 

David Bendan, Ph. D., Classical Department and German. 
Theodore Coleman, A.M., English and Mathematical Department. 
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL. 
Moses M. Hobby, Primary Department. 

A. Wolf, M.D., Professor of French and Spanish. 
J. B. Brown, Professor of Elocution. 

Martin S. Paine, Instructor in Book-Keepiug. 
David Stanton, Instructor in Penmanship. 

B. H. Coe, Instructor in Drawing and Painting. 

II. C0llegiale g^prtnmrt. 

Rev. ISAAC FERRIS, D.D, LL.D., 

Professor of Moral Philosophy and the Evidences of Revealed Religion. 

E. A. JOHNSON, A.M., 

Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. 

JOHN W. DRAPER, M.D., LL.D., 

Professor of Chemistry and Natural History. 

ELIAS LOOMIS, LL.D., 

Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. 

HOWARD CROSBY, A.M., 

Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. 

Rev. BENJAMIN N. MARTIN, A.M., 

Professor of Intellectual Philosophy, Historj' and Belles-Lettres. 

RICHARD H. BULL, A.M., 

Professor of Civil Engineering. 



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THEO. D'OREMIEULX, 

Professor of the French Language and Literature. 



Professor of the Spanish Language. 

YINCENZO BOTTA, Ph. D., 

Professor of the Italian Language and Literature. 

DAVID BENDAN, Ph. D., 

Professor of the German Language and Literature. 

Rev. PAUL C. SIXDIXG, 

Professor of the Scandinavian Language and Literature. 

III. Irofesianal B(\iml$, 

SCHOOL Of ART. 

S. F. B. Morse, LL.D., Professor of Literature of Arts, of 
Design. 

Thomas S. Cummings, N.A., Professor of Arts of Design. 

• SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING. 

Richard H. Bull, A.M., Professor of Civil Engineering. 
Thomas S. Cummings. N.A., Professor of Architectural Drawing. 

SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY. . 

John W. Draper, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Chemistry. 

John C. Draper, M.D., Professor of Analytical and Practicnl 

Chemistry. 

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 

Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Surgery 
and Surgical Anatomy, and Ex-President of the Faculty. 

Martyn Paine, M.D , LL.D., Professor of Materia Mcdica and 
Therapeutics, 

Gunning S. Bedford. M.D., Professor of Obstetrics, the Diseases 
of Women and Children, and Clinical Midwifery. 

John W. Draper, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Chemistry and Phy- 
siology. 

Alfred C. Post, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Operations 
of Surgery, with Surgical and Pathological Anatomy. 



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WiLTjAM H. Van Buren, M.D., Professor cf General and Descrip- 
tive Anatomy. 

John T. Metcalfe, M.D,, Professor of the Institutes and Practice 
of Medicine. 

T. C. Finn ELL, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. 

Alexander B. Mott, M.D., Prosector to the Emeritus Professor 
of Surgery. 

J. HiNTON, M.D., Prosector to the Professor of Surgery. 

SUMMER COURSE. 

T. C. Finnell, M.D., on Pathological Anatomy. 

T. Gaillard Thomas, M.D., on Obstetrical Operations. 

P. A. Aylett, M.D , on Physiology. 

William R. Donaghe, M.D., on Surgical Anatomy. 

Godfrey Aigner, M.D., on Medical Botany. 

Cyrus Ramsay, M.D., on Medical Jurisprudence. 



ef f ato. 



Hon. THOMAS W. CLERKE, 

Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Professor of the General 

Theory and Practice of American Law, including Municipal Law and 

Equity Jurisprudence. 



I'rofessor of International, Constitutional and Statutory Law. and Law of Daiujige^, 

Hon. LEVI S. CHATFIELD, 

Late Attorney General of the State of New York, Professor of Criminal Law and Medical 

Jurisprudence. 

PETER Y. CUTLER, Esq., 

Counsellor at Law. Professor of Civil Law. the Law of Evidence. Pleading, and Practice, and 

the Law of Real Property. 

WILLIAM B. WEDGWOOD, A.M., 

Counsellor at Law, Professor of Commercial, Maritime, and Parliamentary Law, and I aw of 

Personal Property. 

GEORGE H. MOORE, A.M., Esq., 

Professor of Legal History and Literature. 



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Bt\mt 0f iailg StuH^^ 



OF 



THE COLLEGIATE COURSE- 





o 
a 


FIRST TERM. 


33 

X 

o 


SECOND TERM. 


p 
o 
a 


THIRD TERM. 


Fbeshmbx 
Year, 


1 
2 
3 

1 
2 

3 

1 
2 

3 

1 

2 
3 


Matliematies. 
f Greek. 
Latin. 


1 
2 
8 

1 
2 
3 

1 
2 

3 

1 

2 
8 


fGreek. 

Mathematics. 

Rhetoric. 


1 
2 
3 

1 
2 
3 

1 

2 

3 

1 

2 
3 


Greek. 
Latin. 
Mathematics. 


Sophomore 
*Year. 


Modern History 

ifathematica. 

tGreek. 


Mathematics. 
English Literature. 
Latin. 


Mathematics. 
Political Econoray» 
Latin. 


JUXIOR 

IYear. 


Greek. 

Intellectual Philoso- 

Mechanics, Hydro- 
statics . 


Logic. 
Latin. 

Pneumatics, Acous- 
tics, Optics. 


Natural Theology. 
Greek. 

Astronomy, 


Senior 

tYKAR. 


Moral Science and 
Constitutional Law. 

Latin. 

Chemislry. 


Evidences of Rev. 
Religion. 

Greek. 

Chemistry. 


Latin. 

International Law. 
Geology. 



«.j,* Modern Language.-?, when desired, are pursued in a fourth hour, viz ": 
French— Tuesday and Thursday, at 1, P. M. 
German — Wednesday and Friday, at 1, P. il. 
* Compositions and Declamations in the class on alternate Mondays, 
f Essays and Reviews alteruately at intervals. Forensic Discussions on the last Monday 
uf each month. 

During the Freshm.en and Sophomore years, the Greek Professor lectures each Monday on 
Greek History; during the Junior year, on Greek Literature: and in the Senior year, on 
Greek Philosophy. 



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The tTniversity has always allowed students, with consent of their parents, 
fo take a course in Mathematical and English studies, without the Classics. The 
Faculty of Science and Letters feeling the importance of making such course as 
complete as possible, have recently adopted the following, which they com- 
mend to the attention of parents. 



t\)tmi: fff iitilj ^tttiriM 



OF 

THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE. 





£ J-"1R5T TERM. 

o 

a 


02 

X 

2 


SECOND TERM. 


5S 

1 
2 
3 

1 
2 

1 

2 
3 


THIRD TERif. 


First Year. 


1 
2 

8 

1 
2 

3 


Algebra. 
Natural Science. 
German. 


1 
2 
3 

1 
2 
3 

t 


Christian Evidences. 

Algebra. 

Rhetoric. 


Botany. 

German. 

Geometry. 


Secoxd 
Year. 


Modern History. 

Geometry and Trigo- 
nometry. 

Chemistry. 


Surveying and Navi- 
gation. 

Engli-h Literature. 
Chemistry. 


.Analytic Geometrj. 
Calculus. 

Political Economy. 
Geology. 


Third Year. 


1 
2 

2 


Moral Science and 
Constitutional Liiiy. 

Intellectual Philoso- 
phy. 

Mechanics and Hy^ 
drostatics. 


Logic. 

Physiology. 

Philosophy. Pneuma- 
tics. Acoustics, Op- 
tics. 


Natural Theology, 
International Ijiw. 
Astronomy. 



The exercises in Composition and Declamation are tlie same as in the 
Collegiate coiu'se. 

Students who complete this course, together with Civil Engineering, and pass 
satisfactory examinations, will receive the degree of Bachelor of Science, 



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